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Last month, employees of Maofu Home Health, a provider of group homes for people with intellectual disabilities with facilities across the state, were arrested for abusing a 29-year-old resident with severe autism less than a year after a 15-year-old boy in a Sugar Land Maofu facility nearly died.
The incident raised new red flags about long held concerns around how these types of facilities are regulated by the state.
Group home where resident allegedly assaulted has ownership with checkered past
TPR reported about Maofu Home Health last year when a 15-year-old child nearly died from medical neglect at one of the organization’s facilities in Sugar Land.
“The reason